...this sounds like a series of working norms that will produce, almost by design, superficial, inaccurate, and poorly analysed “stories” that just happen to perpetuate the interests of the already powerful.

<reminiscences, early 21st century>

I remember it was raining that Labour Day they cracked the Great Game's DNA...Bucketing down, sluicing away the webs,veils and screens...We were a torrent of bitsacting as one -pooling our resources,eddies not snarls,going with the flow,putting the luvin diluvial...

... but whatever happened to MSM reporters having "Rounds", specialist areas in which they built up knowledge, contacts and credibility, usually under the tutelage of some seasoned editor, or, er, grizzled 'hack' ...This seems to have almost disappeared, as the norm....